expectorant, n.m., expectorant.
expectoration, n.f., expectoration; sputa.
expectorer, v.a., to expectorate, to spit.
expédient, n.m., expedient; shift; ☉(jur.) compromise. Homme d’—s; man full of expedients, or full of resource. En être aux —s; to be reduced to expedients or to shifts. Son dernier —; one’s last shift.
expédient, adj.m., expedient, fit, meet, proper, advisable.
expédier, v.a., to dispatch, to perform, to send off; to forward; to knock off, to clear off; to clear (at the custom-house); to draw up. — des marchandises; to forward goods. — un acte; to draw up a deed. — des troupes; to send off troops.
expéditeur, n.m., sender, commission-agent; (nav.) shipper.
expéditi-f, -ve, adj., expeditious, quick.
expédition, n.f., expedition, dispatch; sending, shipment; copy (of a deed); clearance (at the custom-house). pl., dispatches. Faire l’— de; (com.) to forward. Le courrier attend ses —s; the courier is waiting for his dispatches. Homme d’—; sharp man of business.
expéditionnaire, adj., expeditionary.